Liu-chou
English
Map including LIU-CHOU (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 柳州 (Liǔzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Liu³-chou¹.[1]
Proper noun
Liu-chou
- Alternative form of Liuzhou
- 1967, Schafer, Edward H., The Vermilion Bird, University of California Press, LCCN 67-10463, OCLC 802763855, OL 5533953M, page 95:
- He has also left a sacrificial ode to the manes of his fever-ridden young friend Liu Tsung-yüan, who had died at his post in Liu-chou in 819, with an offering "to the numen of my departed friend, Liu Tzu-hou."
- 1973, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., “Life and Works”, in Liu Tsung-yüan, New York: Twayne Publishers, LCCN 72-3183, OCLC 689320, page 39:
- While Liu Yü-hsi traveled southeastward overland, Liu Tsung-yüan journeyed southwestward through Yung-chou, his former place of exile, and Kuei-chou (modern Kweilin) to Liu-chou.
- 1998, “Liu Tsung-Yüan”, in Encyclopedia of World Biography, volume 9, 2nd edition, Gale Research, →ISBN, LCCN 97-42327, OCLC 1072134881, pages 455-456:
- In spring 815 Liu and the other subprefects were summoned back by the Emperor to Ch'ang-an. He was filled with hope of reprieve and a new position at court, but to his disappointment, he was sent farther away from the capital as governor of Liu-chou in Kwangsi Province, an aboriginal region infested with malaria and other subtropical diseases. The people therewere supersitious and impoverished, and banditry was rife.
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Translations
Liuzhou — see Liuzhou
References
- Liuzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Liu-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Liu-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.